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Edward Said: The Myth Of The Clash Of Civilizations (1998)

Legendary scholar-activist Edward Said delivers a powerful lecture dismantling the persistent ideological belief that the world is riven by a clash of civilizations between the civilized and enlightened U.S.-led West and the barbaric and backward-looking totalitarian forces of the Middle East and Far East.

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